"Aaaaaaah!"
Mingmei, who was in the hall, heard Lu Xiaoyao's miserable scream. Soon, she saw two paper servants with red faces brought in Lu Xiaoyao, who was tied up.
The scene looked exactly like a pig being slaughtered in the countryside for the Chinese New Year.
Lu Xiaoyao, who was carried in with her legs tied up and hanging on a stick, looked utterly hopeless the whole time.
However, when Lu Xiaoyao saw Mingmei sitting there, her eyes lit up instantly, as if she had seen a relative. The paper effigy had just been removed from the wooden stick and placed on the ground, and she immediately scurried over to Mingmei's feet like a worm.
Lu Xiaoyao: My family!
Bright, sparkling eyes (JPG)
Mingmei: "..."
Mingmei didn't know what expression to use when facing her.
I clearly saw her coming in the live stream, but I never expected the occasion of our meeting to be so dramatic.
Because the villain was nearby, Mingmei didn't dare to untie Lu Xiaoyao.
Why did you come back?
Originally, Mingmei wasn't asking Lu Xiaoyao this question, but since Lu Xiaoyao was tied up and sitting near Mingmei's feet, she naturally heard it and quickly replied, "I just want to understand what's going on."
Lu Xiaoyao stared at Yuan Fang and asked, "Why did you betray this game? Could it be... you're not actually a player, but an NPC impersonating you?"
After this bright and beautiful day, everyone he meets is an NPC?
It has to be said that Lu Xiaoyao has quite a vivid imagination. Everyone present, including Mingmei, laughed, and when Young Master Zhang heard Mingmei's soft laugh, he laughed along with her.
But when Lu Xiaoyao saw everyone laughing, she felt like crying!
Did she say something wrong?
Why are all the villains laughing?
The villain laughed, so shouldn't players like her be crying? QAQ
"Do you know what happened?" Lu Xiaoyao looked up at Mingmei pitifully, hoping to find out some useful information.
Instead of answering Lu Xiaoyao directly, she looked at Yuan Fang and Young Master Zhang with bright eyes and asked, "Is tonight's ceremony the handover of the Zhang family head's position?"
Yuan Fang hadn't expected that the mysterious NPC selling boxed lunches would be so intelligent. Not only did she impersonate a player at the beginning and guide them to buy items in the middle, but she was also present at the very end of the game's storyline.
Yuan Fang glanced discreetly at Young Master Zhang, and seeing that the other party showed no intention of speaking, he replied, "Yes."
"So, what you said about the final mission being to escape Baishui Town was actually a lie, right? You discovered that the mission of playing the role of Miss Bai was different from that of Hu Yue and the others, so you thought of using the difference in the final mission to divide them?"
Yuan Fang smiled and shook his head, denying Mingmei's guess. He looked at Lu Xiaoyao, whose face was now blank because her mind couldn't keep up, and said, "I just want to let this idiot go."
Mingmei: ...
Lu Xiaoyao, coming to her senses: ?
Who's the fool?
Who let whose girl go?
Upon hearing this, Mingmei looked at Yuan Fang's clothes, then at Young Master Zhang, and turned her head to ask subconsciously, "Is the reason why the Zhang family has never had any offspring because the head of the Zhang family is always chosen from a collateral branch to succeed him?"
Why would you say that?
Young Master Zhang looked at Mingmei with a smile, without answering directly, but simply gesturing for her to say more.
Mingmei: ...
"Judging from the way the memorial tablets in the ancestral hall are recorded, the matriarchs of the Zhang family in successive generations were all daughters of the Bai family. They had no children and there was no memorial tablet for the birth mother of the Zhang family head."
Mingmei wasn't usually talkative; she could only manage so much with a straight face, and in the end, she even glared at the young master of the Zhang family when she got a little angry.
It conveys a sense of "Stop keeping me in suspense! Tell me already!"
After she finished speaking, Lu Xiaoyao's eyes widened as she looked at Mingmei and asked, "You...you can read?"
Mingmei: "Otherwise, how could I have understood that marriage certificate from before? You're only realizing it now? Besides, it's strange that you can't read, isn't it?"
Lu Xiaoyao: ……
Oh, that makes sense.
“The Zhang family has indeed never had an heir.” Young Master Zhang put down his teacup, acknowledging the matter, and then looked at Yuan Fang, saying, “This time, it is the ceremony to hand over the power of the Zhang family head. This is the first time in so many years.”
After saying that, the young master of the Zhang family smiled at Lu Xiaoyao and said, "This is all thanks to you."
Looking at Lu Xiaoyao, who seemed to only know how to say "Aba aba," Mingmei had an unbelievable thought flash through her mind in an instant.
First time?
"So, the Bai family knows about the evil deeds your Zhang family has committed, right?"
At this moment, the two girls who had been knocked unconscious earlier had also woken up. Although they were unable to move, they had still heard what they were supposed to hear. Bai Xiao spoke first to question them.
Recalling what happened at the ancestral hall earlier, Bai Xiao continued, "You were blackmailed by the Bai family, weren't you? So, for some unknown secret, you've had to keep marrying Bai family daughters all these years. The marriage certificate she tore up was some kind of contract you signed with the Bai family, wasn't it?"
Mingmei was surprised that Bai Xiao had revealed everything so quickly. Then Bai Xiao looked at Yuan Fang and said, "And you, from the distant Zhang family, you didn't bring your students here to gather inspiration. Instead, after the Zhang family has completely broken away from the Bai family and there is no longer a Bai family bride, we will naturally replace the Bai family's young lady as the new bride to complete your Zhang family's last insidious ceremony!"
After Bai Xiao finished speaking, the entire room fell silent. Apart from Lu Xiaoyao, everyone else present had basically understood. So, inexplicably, when Lu Xiaoyao came to her senses, she found that everyone's eyes were on her.
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